FreshDVServing up fresh, crispy news and views for creators and consumers of digital video2014-05-12T17:12:45Zhttp://www.freshdv.com/feed/atomWordPressMatthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48612014-04-04T04:35:29Z2014-04-04T04:31:49ZFor NAB 2014, FreshDV is doing limited video coverage of the expo in association with our friends at Pro Video Coalition. PVC has a broad scope of NAB coverage for 2014, both videos articles, and Matt Jeppsen will be hosting a number of those videos with a focus on camera and lighting. Expect video coverage to start going live on Tuesday April 8th.

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48512013-06-15T20:08:34Z2013-06-15T20:08:34ZRyan Brown has a great blog post that walks you through his DIY RAID enclosure build. For $3288 he built a RAID5 box that delivers over 1100MB/s read and 1800MB/s write performance on his Windows system. Yes, it will work for Mac users as well. Ryan used (16) 1TB drives to build his RAID set, the effective space comes out to just under 14TB.

The price and performance look great. If you’ve got some time and are willing to DIY a little, this type of approach seems like a great solution for post-production. Check it out.

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48482014-04-04T05:14:13Z2013-06-04T17:05:50ZOver at my PVC channel I wrote an article wrapping up what I saw at Cine Gear this year. Check it out here.
]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48472013-05-06T13:38:10Z2013-05-06T13:36:32ZI shot a commercial project last week that we chose to frame and crop to 2.35:1 frame. We landed on this aspect ratio so that we could carefully draw the audience’s attention to specific areas of the frame. The project was shot on the Canon C300, so we simply turned on those crop marks in camera, and framed with that intent. Now that we’re in post, we chose to lay out the footage on a standard 16:9 timeline in Premiere Pro, and are using the Motion effects tab to make minor vertical framing adjustments. It’s a pretty simple workflow, but there was some math involved and I had to google for a tutorial on the crop marks.

Here’s a great tutorial I located on how to lay out a PSD with crop marks, and the appropriate recipe for cropping the output from Premiere Pro. Simple, and it seems to work beautifully. Good luck!

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48402013-04-11T05:36:39Z2013-04-11T05:32:43ZAt Zeiss, Rich gave us an update on their latest two zoom lenses, as well as a look at an early version of a forthcoming line of premium prime lenses for photo, and (hopefully) video soon after. In there is also an interesting discussion on 4K sensors and lenses for them.

]]>2Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48392013-04-10T21:43:02Z2013-04-10T21:43:02ZAt the Kessler NAB booth we got a quick look at how to calibrate and set basic moves up on a 3-axis Kessler CineDrive system. Watch below.

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48282013-04-12T17:32:41Z2013-04-10T21:18:12ZEric Kessler gives us the update on the complete and shipping Kessler CineDrive motion system, as well as the new Bloom and Stealth slider Carbon versions, and the new lightweight Pocket Jib Traveler.

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48332013-04-10T21:08:28Z2013-04-10T21:08:28ZK5600 had some really cool updates at NAB 2013. There are a couple fixture updates, but the really cool announcement was the new tungsten-balanced bulb that works in the new HMI fixtures. It gives you the same output as their HMI daylight-balanced bulb, but in a tungsten color temperature. And their new two-light 200-watt kit (equivalent to 800-watts in tungsten terms) is an incredible value, and also offers a traditional fresnel type fixture design as an option. Very cool.

]]>0Matthew Jeppsenhttp://www.freshdv.comhttp://www.freshdv.com/?p=48322013-04-10T20:57:54Z2013-04-10T20:57:54ZStu Maschwitz shows us Red Giant’s new tool called Bulletproof, and we get an update from Digital Rebellion.